Sabbath : restoring the sacred rhythm of rest /
Muller, Wayne, 1953-
Sabbath : restoring the sacred rhythm of rest / [print] Wayne Muller. - New York : Bantam Books, (c)1999. - 241 pages ; 25 cm
Part I. Rest -- Rest for the weary : lighting Sabbath candles -- The joy of rest : creating time and space -- Legalism and the dreary Sabbath : a Sabbath meal -- A new beginning : begin again -- It is good : blessing -- Dormancy : the Sabbath box Part II. Rhythm -- The rhythm of creation : the Sabbath walk -- Inner music : the cadence of breath -- Hurtling toward the eschaton : nature -- Let it be : prayer -- The book of hours : lectio divina Part III. Time -- A life well lived : play -- Seize the day : alter -- Why time is not money : reciting our precepts -- A deeper wealth : the wealth of companionship Part IV. Happiness -- The pursuit of happiness : gratefulness -- The gospel of consumption : happiness for free -- Selling unhappiness : morning rituals -- The tyranny of choice : stopping to rest -- Sensuality and delight : take off your shoes Part V. Wisdom -- Doing good badly : patience -- Be still and know : sleeping on it -- Nobody special : humility -- Being Sabbath : thinning -- Beginner's mind : cleansing Part Virgin Islands Consecration -- Mindfulness and holiness : confession -- The way of enough : a place at the table -- Ownership : giveaway -- Breaking the trance Part Virgin IslandsI. A Sabbath day -- Evening -- Morning -- Afternoon -- Leaving Sabbath time.
A meditation on the need for a day of rest, against the background of a growing commercialization of Sunday. The author analyzes the rhythm of labor and rest, by which all living beings are governed.
9780553106725 9780553380118
98043982
Rest--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Sabbath.
Christian life.
BV4509.M958.S233 1999 BV4509
Sabbath : restoring the sacred rhythm of rest / [print] Wayne Muller. - New York : Bantam Books, (c)1999. - 241 pages ; 25 cm
Part I. Rest -- Rest for the weary : lighting Sabbath candles -- The joy of rest : creating time and space -- Legalism and the dreary Sabbath : a Sabbath meal -- A new beginning : begin again -- It is good : blessing -- Dormancy : the Sabbath box Part II. Rhythm -- The rhythm of creation : the Sabbath walk -- Inner music : the cadence of breath -- Hurtling toward the eschaton : nature -- Let it be : prayer -- The book of hours : lectio divina Part III. Time -- A life well lived : play -- Seize the day : alter -- Why time is not money : reciting our precepts -- A deeper wealth : the wealth of companionship Part IV. Happiness -- The pursuit of happiness : gratefulness -- The gospel of consumption : happiness for free -- Selling unhappiness : morning rituals -- The tyranny of choice : stopping to rest -- Sensuality and delight : take off your shoes Part V. Wisdom -- Doing good badly : patience -- Be still and know : sleeping on it -- Nobody special : humility -- Being Sabbath : thinning -- Beginner's mind : cleansing Part Virgin Islands Consecration -- Mindfulness and holiness : confession -- The way of enough : a place at the table -- Ownership : giveaway -- Breaking the trance Part Virgin IslandsI. A Sabbath day -- Evening -- Morning -- Afternoon -- Leaving Sabbath time.
A meditation on the need for a day of rest, against the background of a growing commercialization of Sunday. The author analyzes the rhythm of labor and rest, by which all living beings are governed.
9780553106725 9780553380118
98043982
Rest--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Sabbath.
Christian life.
BV4509.M958.S233 1999 BV4509